Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-01
RlDD1NG CORRESPONDENCE.
Matters of Interest in Shasta County-A
Craving Sectinn.
REDDING, September 2S, 1887.

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Growing Section.
REDDING, September 2S, 1887
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: Last Sunday was
great day for comparing notes, as the
evening before the greater part of our del
egation to the State Fair had returned and
were comparing the exhibits sent from our
county with those Of others. The general
opinion appeared to be that our display of
fruits was equal, if not superior, to any,
and that our mineral exhibit was as good
as that from any other county. Our re-
cent County Fair cost $1,000 to ran it. and
all debts have been paid, so, ike your own,
ii was a financial success.
Grand Master Edmund c. Atkinson, of
Sacramento, paid an official visit to Ma
sonic Lodge No. 254, last Saturday, and
delegations from all the lodges in the dis
trict attended. His lecture was very i'm
pressive and after exemplifying the work
of the third degree, the brethren marched
him down to the Paragon Hotel, where a
grand banquet had been prepared under
the supervision of Mrs Graves. 1t was
quite happy affair, and jests and speeches
abounded. The repast was pronounced su-
peril, and the stewards were highly COM
plimented for their zealand efficiency
The match race here for purse of ST.
900, quarter of mile and repeat, last
Saturday, was quite an event, and brought
hundreds of visitors to our city. 1t
merged into a friendly horse competition
betweed the two counties-Trinity and
Shasta. About $1,000 changed hands on
the race, which was won by Johnny Allen,
owned by Gibson.
Fall River valley, in the northern ex-
tremity of our county, is also catching a
boom, and from J. Sutton, one of its oldest
and most solid citizens, / have Just now
learned that it is filling up fast with very
desirable class of citizens. One hundred
thousand bushels of grain have been raised
this year, and in the mountain ranges on
each side herds of cattle, horses and mules
increase and multiply. Taxes were col
lected closer there this year than in
any other part of the county, and
an era Of prosperity appears to be dawn
ing upon the whole community. A project is
in formation by some of the leading men,
assisted by San Francisco capitalists, to
take the water from Pit river TO irri-
gate about ten thousand acres of land w.
ing between that and Fall river. the
former being higher than the latter. Fall
City is becoming quite business center
and the Winters .grist mill is now running
night and day. What a splendid water
power they have, especially at the con-
fuence of the two rivers. Years ago |
wondered why it was not utilized, but
they are now getting a class of men into
that sectlon-nearly all read the RECORD
UNIoN-who will soon work out the
problem. Some idea can be formed of the
timber land business in that vicinity from
the fact, that last week the Fall River
Nail contained sixty-three notices, quite a
''fat take" for the proprietor. Politicians
will have to deal carefully with that
section next year, for they now have over
three hundred votes ON their side of the
mountains.
The Anderson people are bestirring
themselves to make arrangements for the
reception of the excursion which leaves
Los Angeles October LIST, and have ap-
pointed committees in all parts of the
county to prepare exhibits of fruits and
farm products.
There was another anti-Chinese meeting
at Sissons last Saturday night, and about 4
o'clock next morning man named VIM.
Rose, of Red Bluff, was stabbed and died
the same evening; it was dance-house
affair."
Tatum & Bowen, of San Francisco, con-
template several enterprises in the neigh
borhood of Squaw valley and McCloud
river, consisting of sawmills fumes for
the conveyance of lumber, and a narrow
gauge railroad from suitable point on
the California and Oregon Railroad, dis
lance of nine miles, to connect with the
tlume. So says the Mount Shasta Herald,
lively little sheet published at Sisson
The Shasta County Agricultural and
Mineral Association have purchased the
race track and fair grounds, and the next
thing in order is the erection of a vast pa
vilion for the exhibition of our resources
on future occasions. Our City Trustees ex-
pect to get well down to business about the
middle of next month, and will no doubt
inaugurate many needful improvements.
Much has been done during the past two
years, and the value of property thereby
has been considerably increased, for so sure
as place is made attractive by good local
improvements, people will find their way
there, and such has been eminently the
case with Redding. Therefore, if values
can be doubled by an expenditure of a
small per cent. on present values, it GER
tainly is good business proposition Such
results have been obtained in the past, and
the same are sure to follow in the
future. Progress sign No. l is described
as follows: Our school has six depart
ments to accommodate about four hundred
scholars; at the commencement of the last
scholastic year about fifty scholars had to
be supplied with necessary books out of the
public funds in consequence Of their par
ents being too poor to provide them with
the same. This year not one application
has been made, but all came well provided.
Kansas immigrants still continue to ar
rive, and more are reported to be on the
way. They have purchased eleven lots in
the Schearer addition to the northern part
of our city, and Mr.. John Turner, the cy-
clone householder, who halls from their
State, has contracted to build four good
and substantial houses thereon. They are
brimful of pluck and energy, and Just the
kind that are desirable addition to any
community. A few months residence in
California will drive all thoughts of chinch
bugs and cyclones from their minds, and
they will become the happy mortals that
We all are who dwell in this favored land.
J. w. NJ.